Sen. John Boozman made a stop at Russellville’s Veterans Health Administration (VHA) community outpatient clinic Thursday to meet with staff and tour the facility.

The senator said he is impressed with the clinic, which staff members said is one of the top three such facilities in the nation.

“The facility here is just tremendous,” he said. “What it does is allow veterans to get a lot of care that they can get locally rather than travel to one of the veterans hospitals. The quality of care here is impressive. The equipment that they have here is state-of-the-art, and so I think it’s just another example of trying to do our very best to take care of our veterans.”

Boozman said his office does a great deal of work to assist veterans and help them understand and obtain benefits they are eligible for.

“Certainly, trying to help them wade through the bureaucracy of the federal government, myself and the staff here at this community-based outpatient clinic, all of us are committed to doing that,” he said.

The clinic currently has two full-time care providers serving more than 2,000 patients with room to grow. The clinic has the capacity to host a third provider as patient levels grow.

Services available include primary care, laboratory, X-ray, mental health, nutrition, pharmacy counseling and tele-health services. Staff includes physicians, RNs, LPNs, a lab technologist, a dietitian, mental health care providers, medical support assistants and a tele-health technician. The VHA clinic, located at 3106 W. Second Court, can be reached at 880-5100.